Plant porn thread - what's looking lovely in your garden right now?

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I am currently smitten with all the geraniums, especially a beautiful purple one that is next to a yellow Welsh poppy. The dicentra spectabilis alba was gorgeous until the fox cubs rolled on it. Grrr.

Ooh here we have fabulous aquilegia, clematis (some nodding purple one whose name escapes me and a white montana), euphorbia, dicentra, ceonothus and wisteria all doing their thang. And the Allium christophii are starting to go PING! God I love those - they are so spectacular.

Pear and crab apple blossom were fab a few weeks' back but they're done now

My Dicentra Stuart Boothman look just wonderful, the Rosa Banksia is covered in tiny yellow flowers and I should have some wonderful Iris sibirica out with it hot this weekend.

The Hawthorn tree also looks fab in blossom but it smells like either (a) a dead animal or (b) semen (depending on your sense of smell), so not so nice to sit under!

All I have that's really in flower is a ceanothus Puget Blue, with euphorbia growing underneath it, but it's stunning!! Aquilegia starting to come out - but thanks, you've given me some stuff to research and plant for next year, I need more flowers in May! Everything seems a bit late this year though...?

Oh hawthorn blossom is my favourite flower in the whole wide world - I LOVE it. We are thinking of planting a native hedge this year with lots of hawthorn in it.

I was up in the garden this morning and all of a sudden had a great waft of lovely scent - it was my clematis montana 'Elizabeth', which is flowering for the first time this year. Yum.

And also the (v boring) grass seed we put down a few weeks ago has developed a lovely green fuzz at last. yeay.

wisteria and clematis both doing well, honeysuckle looking lively but not doing anything yet (can't remember what time of year it comes out). Best of all the lavender. Berberis is out. Some late tulips. The daphne is out. Lots of blossom on the cherry. At least I think it's a cherry.

Soil's wrong for rhododendrons and azaleas, more's the pity. Have the odd cammelia which is out.

DH has planted up lots of tubs and pots with bedding plants, mostly pelargoniums and aquilegia (SP?)

Garden is fab atm - glad to see everyone enjoying theirs!

The honeysuckle Belgica will be open tomorrow, I think. The others are biding their time.

Perhaps we should keep this thread going, as a sort of online gardening journal?

Your belgica is coming out? Wow, mine is in really tight bud and it's on a SW facing wall in London! We should definitely keep the thread going - it makes interesting reading so far.

How about photos on profiles too? I have taken a few of my clematis and dicentris/euphoriba which I will upload. Planting combination inspiration would be great

If we had photos it really would be plant porn, wouldn't it?

No point in porn without pics is there? Otherwise it's purely plant erotica

Had my first strawberries last night

the clematis montana is going wild ATM and smells lovely, all woody. I have one red strawberry

I have choisya in bloom so to be followed by Rhoderdendron and a climbing yellow rose. One of last year's cuttings of climbing petunia has amazingly survived the winter and is now in bloom as is a snapdragon which was grown from seed last year collected from the garden. Aquilegia is also out now. Fair amount of blossom on the blueberries that went in last year.

Had a lovely lot of primroses , bluebells and azalea plus something I think is Japenese quince and don't remember planting. My Early sensation clematis did well and there are two more clematitis gearing up to open, plus 6 new roses that went in this year and my 3 other climbing roses, one lovely fragrant one that is mixed into honeysuckle round the front door.

No nearly ripe strawberries but have picked some rhubarb and will be picking lettuce soon.

LadyBiscuit - where are your photos? I'll show you mine if you show me yours...

Today we have aquilegia coming out all over, mountain cornflowers all in bloom (and falling over) and I think it's called Hattie's Pincushion - little pink flowers - all growing up through a lavender bush, making it look rather lovely.

Sage - in full bloom and a mass of lilac. Lovely.

Wild poppies in the field

Bearded irises

Rosa buff beauty

In fact it's really looking at its best right now. Will soon wither and wilt in the summer heat

had the 3 strawberries which were ripe today. The Mock Orange has just started to flower and my first 2 roses (Cottage Garden) have just opened.........mmmmmm I love my garden. Just off out to listen for oystercathchers......

Pink (red) campion, purple geraniums and orange geums all looking very pretty massed together. Finally got the pruning right on my giant clemtis montana, having had to be brutal with it for a couple of years, and it is a mass of flowers. A fab clump of blue irises, with lots of sweet cicely behind them, and of course aquilegia everywhere, although every year I try to get rid of them. Didn't notice the berberis was in flower till I heard the buzzing from all the bees that were all over it.

Interesting that here there are no roses out, strawberry flowers but no fruit, and hawthorn only just coming out. Seems we are a bit be behind some, yet I thought west wales was supposed to be mild?

Today the first poppy came out! They are browny purpley things, huge flowers and absolutely gorgeous... heartwarming

This is the best time of year in our garden - all fresh and reasonably controlled. I'm thrilled to bits with my wildflower patch - I planted 150 various wildflowers (or weeds...) around our septic tank lids (which are a lovely garden feature!) which have now disappeared beneath wild daffodils (now finished), cowslips (finishing) and lots of campion, vetch, buttercups, and other things I'm not sure of the names of, but which are very pretty!

Finally my veg patch is looking promising too - although I've given up on sweetcorn - 2 failed sowings this year. My radishes are cropping now - and the lettuces are almost there. Hurray for spring/summer!

rock rose - just starting
lilac - any day will be full bloom
geraniums
petunias
lavender
wegelia (sp)
periwinkle

All in bloom

Nelly Moser clematis in flower, twining through rosa glauca.

Lots of fresh green shoots everywhere.

My tulips have gone and my bluebells,strange how different we all are! My lilac is on the way out now.Purple Iris looking lovely though,Gertrude Jekyll rose just coming with quite a few flowers,Columbine everywhere and huge gorgeous oriental poppies,one massive peach bloom is the glory of my cottage garden.

Delphiniums out today - bliss. Peonies in tight bud - out in the next five days I think. Gladioli communis ssp byzantium gorgeous - a surprise, had forgotten I planted them.

French lavender all out, English looking healthy with another 3 -4 weeks to go I think before flowering.

I so love June. Lots of my favourites bloom now, with the healthy foliage and impending delights of more to come In July.

We have small peas and a few ripe strawberries, does that count?

Of course it does, IIB. This is about what gives you horticultural pleasure - it doesn't have to be Chelsea gold medal standard.